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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1959
Page
22
The Columbia VFW Post 9340 changes its sausage and sauerkraut dinner to Saturday Feb 21 at the Columbia School cafeteria from 5 to 8 p.m. The Feb 14 date was error and the event will be held Feb 21 instead.
Lorain Animal Shelter and Placement Center Inc. will launch a campaign on March 15 to raise money labor and materials for a 23000 dollar animal shelter at Cromwell Park site.
An auto bus collision in Lorain left three people with minor injuries. The crash occurred near East 31st Street after a tire blew, sending a car into the bus as pedestrians moved along Vine Avenue. No charges have been filed against the driver at this time.
Clearview Supt. William J. Gillies told the school board a 200-bed emergency hospital will be shipped soon for civil defense storage at Clearview High School. Equipment includes a 1900 pound 15 kilowatt generator and a 1500 gallon collapsible water tank. Perishable supplies would be kept by Pleasant View Sanatorium and rotated to maintain fresh stock.
A Lorain Municipal Court roundup lists defendants and fines: Harold Reesch 49 speeding $10. Jose Quendo 60 dumping refuse $50 with $25 withheld on one year good behavior. Mildred Botehick 35 failure to control car $10. Eddie Flanders 41 improperly driving backwards $10. Vernon Eliott 40 speeding $10. Lillian Marshall 23 failure to control car $5. Garrett Worstell 34 stop sign violation $10. Margaret Fulton 34 red light violation $10. Steve Rowland 21 speeding $20. Donald Evans 23 failure to control fear $20. Charles Hill 42 driving a truck with no mud flaps $10. Audrey Brown 41 failure to control fear $5. Francs Given 38 driving while intoxicated and failure to control car $200.
A 32 year old man Marvin Mulkey suffered first and second degree burns while trying to extinguish a mattress fire in his bed. He was treated at St. Joseph Hospital and released. The blaze began when he dropped the mattress from a second story apartment and was limited to the mattress, with about 50 dollars in damage. In Nashville Arthur Johnson received a six gallon pin from the Red Cross for donating 48 pints of blood over ten years.
Avon officials questioned the board of public affairs about proposed water rate reductions after a petition of 340 residents. The council plans a meeting next Thursday to discuss who has authority to lower rates and the potential bond-holder liability if returns are jeopardized.
In Yucatel lo, a wake-a-thon ended oddly as DJ Jo Warner dozed in her fiancé's arms while pursuing a new record. The chaotic piece also mentions a rate-cut discussion by Irwin Struhar and a water bill plan, with unrelated notes on crimes and local happenings.
David Shumaker of Amherst became the first local scout to hold the God and Country award and the third to receive the Eagle Scout rank. He received the Eagle at a Court of Honor for Troop 322, presented by Municipal Court Judge David R. Goldthorpe. Shumaker, 14, is a Marion L. Steele High School sophomore with 21 merit badges and over three years in scouting.
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